On 13 May 2016 at 21:00, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 08:53:12PM +0000, Brett Cannon wrote: > >> Second draft that takes Guido's comments into consideration. The biggest >> change is os.fspath() now returns whatever path.__fspath__() returns >> instead of restricting it to only str. > > Counter suggestion: > > - __fspath__() method may return either bytes or str (no change > from the PEP as it stands now); > > - but os.fspath() will only return str; > > - and os.fspathb() will only return bytes;
We don't have any use cases for a bytes-only API - only str-or-bytes (in the polymorphic low level functions) and str-only (in newer high level APIs like pathlib). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
